Abstract

The study investigated self-esteem, altruism, personal sense of power as correlates of femalestudents' participation in campus politics. A total number of 320 female students werepurposively selected from eight faculties in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Their age rangedfrom 21 to 28 years, with a mean age of 23.46 and standard deviation of 2.09. Four instrumentswere used namely: The Political Participation Attitude Scale by Falade (2012), Index of Selfesteem(ISE) by Hudson (1982), the Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) by Rushton, Chrisjohn andFekken (1981) and Personal Sense of Power scale by Anderson, John and Keltner (2012). Thestudy was a correctional design and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient usedfor data analysis. The result revealed that the three hypotheses were all confirmed as therewere significant and positive relationships between self-esteem and female politicalparticipation, altruism and female political participation, and personal sense of power andfemale political participation. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended thattraining the girl child in this part of the world should incorporate psychological paradigms tofoster these characteristics: self-esteem, altruism, and personal sense of power, which aregermane to raising good female political leaders.